Document what to do if an outdated port

is noticed.

PR:		docs/80681
Submitted by:	Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz>
		Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com>
Approved by:	trhodes (mentor)
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Jesus R. Camou 2005-07-19 21:37:15 +00:00
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software (mainly ports, but also externally maintained base software (mainly ports, but also externally maintained base
system components such as BIND or various GNU system components such as BIND or various GNU
utilities).</para> utilities).</para>
<para>For unmaintained ports (<makevar>MAINTAINER</makevar> contains
<literal>ports@FreeBSD.org</literal>), such update notifications
might get picked up by an interested
committer, or you might be asked to provide a patch to update
the port; providing it upfront will greatly improve your chances
that the port will get updated in a timely manner.</para>
<para>If the port is maintained, PRs announcing new upstream releases
are usually not very useful since they generate supplementary work
for the committers, and the maintainer likely knows already there is
a new version, they have probably worked with the developers on it,
they are probably testing to see there is no regression, etc.</para>
<para>In either case, following the process described in <ulink
url="&url.books.porters-handbook;/port-upgrading.html">Porter's
Handbook</ulink> will yield the best results.</para>
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